Richard Black Net Worth
Liam Parker
Updated on March 21, 2026
Richard Black biography
Richard B. Black Ph.D. serves as Independent Director of the Company. He has served as a director on our Board since August 2001. Since 1983, he has served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ECRM, Incorporated, a worldwide supplier of laser based imaging equipment. From 2014 to 2017, he also served as President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of CRON-ECRM LLC, a worldwide supplier of laser based imaging equipment. Mr. Black served as a director and Chairman of the audit committee of Alliance Fiber Optics Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: AFOP) from 2002 until its acquisition by Corning in 2016. He serves as a director of TREX Enterprises, Inc., a defense technology company, a position he has held since 2000. Mr. Black has served as trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton since 1990, and became its Vice Chairman in 2006, and Trustee Emeritus since 2012. He has served as a trustee of the American Indian College Fund, Beloit College, Bard College. At the University of Chicago, he serves on the Dean's Council for the Physical Sciences Division and on the Board of Governors of the University's Smart Museum. Mr. Black received a BS degree in Engineering from Texas A&M University, an MBA from Harvard University and an honorary Ph.D. from Beloit College. The Board believes that Mr. Black is qualified to serve as a director based on his extensive business and financial management and leadership experience, and his service on other private company and publicly-held company's boards of directors as both a chief executive officer and chairman of the audit committee. He brings to the Board expertise in the fields of accounting and internal controls.
What is the salary of Richard Black?
As the Independent Director of Applied Optoelectronics Inc, the total compensation of Richard Black at Applied Optoelectronics Inc is $184,998. There are 10 executives at Applied Optoelectronics Inc getting paid more, with Chih-Hsiang Lin having the highest compensation of $2,152,600.
